Weekly Vocabulary List

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List #14~ voc. test on Friday, December 14, 2012


  1. aside
  2. blank verse
  3. characterization
  4. conflict
  5. Internal conflict
  6. external conflict
  7. couplet
  8. epithet
  9. figurative language
  10. foil
  11. foreshadowing
  12. meter
  13. iambic pentameter
  14. metaphor
  15. simile
  16. pun



















  1. adolescent
  2. parallel
  3. augmenting
  4. transgression
  5. pernicious
  6. grievance
  7. synonym
  8. antonym
  9. stage directions
  10. dialogue
  11. summarizing
  12. mutiny
  13. blank verse
  14. procure
  15. predominant
  16. intercession
  17. sallow
  18. lamentable
  19. unwieldy


List #13
  1. comedy
  2. drama
  3. act
  4. scene
  5. dialogue
  6. stage directions
  7. props
  8. sets
  9. monologue
  10. soliloquy
  11. tragedy
  12. aside
  13. pernicious
  14. augmenting
  15. grievance
  16. transgression



November 26-30, 2012 TEST DAY: FRIDAY, November 30, 2012
List #12 list12
  1. allusion
  2. personification
  3. imagery
  4. rhyme scheme
  5. simile
  6. metaphor
  7. meter
  8. stanza
  9. poetry
  10. narrative poetry
  11. lyric poetry
  12. mood
  13. internal rhyme
  14. consonance
  15. assonance
  16. alliteration





Week of November 13-16, 2012
TEST FRIDAY, Nov. 16th, 2012! Practice list #11
  1. auspicious (ch 4)
  2. melancholy (ch 4)
  3. asinine (ch 5)
  4. benevolence
  5. cordiality
  6. edification
  7. inquisitive
  8. morbid
  9. quibbling
  10. tacit
  11. prowess (ch 6)
  12. waning
  13. ensuing
  14. malignant
  15. cleaved (ch 7)
  16. meditative
  17. palate




11.5.12
List #10 List #10 11.5.12
  1. allusion
  2. first person point of view
  3. connotation
  4. denotation
  5. third person omniscient point of view
  6. personification
  7. simile
  8. metaphor
  9. plot
  10. direct characterizaiton
  11. indirect characterization
  12. flashback
  13. symbolism
  14. allegory

10.29.12
List #9 "American History" p.202 and "White House Diary" p.96
  1. tumultuous
  2. implications
  3. poignant
  4. tenement
  5. profound
  6. vigilant
  7. dilapidated
  8. voice
  9. author's purpose
  10. memoir: an account of a single period in a writer's life,often a period that coincides with important historical events.
  11. autobiography
  12. biography
  13. imagery
  14. epiphany
List #8 10.22.12 "Three Skeleton Key" p.1059
  • lurched
  • diminution
  • derisive
  • phosphorescent
  • phalanx
  • reconnaissance
  • flotilla
  • asylum
  • fumigate
  • protagonist
  • antagonist
  • allusion
  • fiction
  • mood
  • character
  • short story






QUIZLET list #7

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List #7 "Cask of Amontillado" p. 61
  1. catacombs
  2. precluded
  3. retribution
  4. Amontillado* *= word comes from story, but definition is at bottom of page
  5. impunity*
  6. immolation*
  7. virtuoso*
  8. pipe*
  9. motley*
  10. explicit
  11. roquelaure*
  12. foreshadowing (R10)
  13. plot
  14. conflict

List #6
October 9 - 12, 2012(starred words are from "The Scarlet Ibis" p.350)
  1. antagonist
  2. protagonist
  3. external conflcit
  4. internal conflict
  5. conflict
  6. plot
  7. symbolism
  8. allegory
  9. allusion
  10. imagery
  11. personification
  12. imminent*
  13. infallibility*
  14. precariously*
  15. clove*
  16. vortex*


quizlet List #5
List #5 10.1.12 - 10.5.12

  1. indolently "Most Dangerous Game"
  2. palpable
  3. gargoyle
  4. astrakhan
  5. debacle
  6. futile
  7. resolution p. R10 Literary Terms
  8. epiphany
  9. inference
  10. conflict
  11. internal conflict
  12. external conflict

List 4 practice~ Quizlet

List #4 September 24-28, 2012 TEST: FRIDAY, September 28th , 2012
  1. renegade
  2. feisty
  3. lateral
  4. interpretation
  5. humorous essay
  6. hyperbole
  7. nonfiction
  8. simile
  9. metaphor
  10. round character
  11. flat character
  12. diction
  13. mood
  14. tone
  15. first person POV
  16. third person POV
  17. third person omniscient POV


List #3 9.17.12 - -9.21.12 ( all literary terms) Test: Friday, Sept 21st, 2012
  1. character
  2. round character
  3. flat character
  4. plot
  5. exposition
  6. falling action
  7. rising action
  8. climax
  9. resolution
  10. first person point of view
  11. third person point of view
  12. allusion
List #2 9.10.12 - 9.14.12 Test day September 14th, 2012 Quizlet
  1. prodigious
  2. deleterious
  3. qualmish
  4. judicious
  5. placidly
  6. desultory
  7. dialogue
  8. dialect
  9. cause
  10. effect
  11. plot (5 parts)
  12. characterization





September 4-7, 2012
Test day: FRIDAY, September 7, 2012
  1. author's purpose
  2. plot
  3. climax
  4. rising action
  5. falling action
  6. resolution